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Night-Night History
On This Day in The History of Mike:89 years ago today, General Motors workers in Flint, Michigan, (including my uncle) took over 3 factories, locked the doors, shut down the assembly lines and refused to come out until GM recognize their union — and give them a 5¢ an hour pay raise. 44 days later, GM caved, the strikers walked…Read More
Our Morally empty clown in the White House: and the evil behind that face
foThe picture of the clown trump found on the internet. Don’t remember where but it is showed up when I put “open course” in the google label. It is my current take on the many crimes that trump has been part of including the pedophile issue which is still being covered up by he and his minions refusing to tell…Read More
War Is Over! If You Want It
Friends,There is one song that stands out as a plea for peace, as relevant this year as it was during the height of the Vietnam War: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Its release in 1971 was accompanied by a two-year long international campaign for peace in 11 cities, bearing a simple but powerful message:John…Read More
We Ain’t Buying It: What we learned
Over Thanksgiving weekend, tens of thousands of people across the country came together to say “We Ain’t Buying It!” to companies that have capitulated to Trump.From Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, they participated in a shopping pause at Target, Home Depot, and Amazon, in protest of those retailers completely caving to the Trump administration and going along with their harmful, authoritarian…Read More
Post-Neoliberalism is the New Centrism
Last week, several hundred academics, think tankers, and political operators gathered in a spectacular new building whimsically named The Treehouse, across the street from Harvard Business School, to discuss the obsolescence of neoliberalism. The Treehouse is named after its primary donor, the cofounder of a private equity firm that has made its profits by targeting, stripping… Source Source linkRead More
On the need for a renewed democratic universalism
If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral, in which one form of identitarian chauvinism spurs the next, we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence. That’s why the Palestine solidarity movement…Read More
Yes, this is what Australia is
Imagine though the possibility of a response which was not horrid. Which did not demand more violence be piled up. Which led us to other ways of being together, other horizons of possible futures. Imagine a way of interacting which flowed from our shared vulnerability and shared strength and shared need to be protected by each other. Maybe we need…Read More
Let’s look at “peace maker” troup. (cough, caugh)
(the “man of peace” causing paid and misery)“Obama, admittedly got the Nobel Peace Prize a bit early. It would have looked far better if they had waited a year and see what things he did. The Peace is usually submitted with a particular deed that recommends him. Now, Obama was my very familar President in the last 25 years. That’s is…Read More
A Legislative Blow to Cannabis
Rob DeSalle— The fall 2025 U.S. government closure and budget negotiations have had many negative impacts on life in America. In my opinion, one negative consequence of H.R. 5371 (Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026) is the insertion—some call it secretive—of anti-cannabis legislation. This rider (at 887 words it is slightly shorter…Read More
Escape to New York City…Newly affordable
escape from the vicious right wing AmericaNow I have to admit that I doubt that New York will ever be affordable for me. It has always been a horrible expensive city to live where rent control existed, but it was always still very highly priced to live there. As I mentioned in the prior article about the city, 40–45 years ago…Read More